---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1130"
citation: "Indiana HB 1130 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LICENSES AND LICENSING", "HEALTH", "Local Boards and Programs", "HUMAN SERVICES", "Regulation and Licensing of Professionals"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Zent", "Mark Messmer"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 33
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-04"
last_action: "2018-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c891613d-6c94-490c-bcf3-817d1433fef5"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1130"
source_hash: "901fc3c093429fdd40c76f5e1008d869ceb942866807a01adce43d6b2e69b4a9"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
---

# Indiana HB 1130 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1130/versions/hb1130.04.engs)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1130/versions/hb1130.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1130/versions/hb1130.02.comh)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1130/versions/hb1130.03.coms)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1130/versions/hb1130.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1130 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1130 - Zent - 3rd Reading — **93–2** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Zent — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- B Patrick Bauer — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Matt Lehman — coauthor (person)
- Ronald Bacon — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-04** Authored by Representative Zent
- **2018-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-18** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-18** Representative Lehman added as coauthor
- **2018-01-18** Representative Bauer added as coauthor
- **2018-01-22** Representative Bacon added as coauthor
- **2018-01-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 31: yeas 93, nays 2 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-22** Senate sponsor: Senator Messmer
- **2018-01-23** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-05** Amendment #4 (Messmer) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** Amendment #2 (Stoops) failed; Division of the Senate: yeas 9, nays 40 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-05** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 313: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-06** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** Motion to dissent filed
- **2018-03-07** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** Senate conferees appointed: Messmer and Randolph Lonnie M
- **2018-03-07** Senate advisors appointed: Brown L, Lanane and Glick
- **2018-03-08** House conferees appointed: Zent and Bauer
- **2018-03-08** House advisors appointed: Lehman, Lyness and Taylor J
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-14** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2018-03-14** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2018-03-14** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 401: yeas 49, nays 0
- **2018-03-14** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 390: yeas 96, nays 0
- **2018-03-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-21** Public Law 180
- **2018-03-21** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c891613d-6c94-490c-bcf3-817d1433fef5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).